Month: March 2026

There was confusion about whether the satirist would be getting the Kennedy Center’s top humor award after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it “fake news.” Now it’s confirmed.

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In Annapolis, Md., people gather each year to usher in the warmer weather by burning their socks. The springtime tradition is the unofficial start of the Chesapeake Bay sailing season.

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The film will focus on chapters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring that were left out of the first movie in the trilogy.

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“There is an America that is more free — where there’s more equality, where there is more justice, where there is less bigotry — and I think it’s waiting for us,” says lawyer Bryan Stevenson.

Therapists say we’re overusing the word. Here’s what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it.

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Dan Roche, who was born with a cataract that left him mostly blind in one eye, was on a baseball team at age 15. On this week’s “My Unsung Hero” from Hidden Brain, he shares a memory of his coach.

Artists, filmmakers and singers once championed Chavez as a hero. Now, they must rethink how to tell his story. “It’s just been gut-wrenching,” one muralist says.

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Lucille Miller was convicted of killing her husband in 1965. Now her daughter Debra reflects on her own traumatic childhood and its lingering effects in The Most Wonderful Terrible Person.